| Session 12: Portfolio Management Reading 52: Portfolio Risk and Return: Part I
 
 
 LOS a: Calculate and interpret major return measures and describe their applicability.     An asset manager’s portfolio had the following annual rates of return: 
 
| Year | Return |  
| 20X7 | +6% |  
| 20X8 | -37% |  
| 20X9 | +27% |  The manager states that the return for the period is ?5.34%. The manager has reported the: 
 
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| A) | arithmetic mean return |  |  
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| B) | holding period return. |  |  
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| C) | geometric mean return. |  |  
 
   
Geometric Mean Return =  = ?5.34% Holding period return = (1 + 0.06)(1 ? 0.37)(1 + 0.27) ? 1 = ?15.2% Arithmetic mean return = (6% ? 37% + 27%) / 3 = ?1.33%. |